Download or read book Designs for Alienation written by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman and published by Sophi Academic Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centering on studies of alienation in varieties of institutional milieus as well as on current theoretical debates, this volume explains how social institutions concretely frame and foster alienation, legitimizing the creation of others, who are disempowered, manipulated and marginalized. Among the writers are researchers from all around the globe. Thus, the book presents a panoramic view of how alienation is brought about in different cultures, including the cultures which are generated by computers.